What a chiiling piece of news. We mourn the loss of one of the greatest of them all!! A great friend has departed. I spoke to him just a few days before traveling out and the country and he told me in clear terms that the progmosis was not promising, a fact that prompted me to warn Professor Falola of the impending news. Oh well, death is a necessary end that will come when it will come, as well said by Shakespeare.
Attached here is an essay I wrote about him and three other non-African Africanists some three years ago. Please take note of the last person, Jan Vansina.
My geatest condolences to the entire Vansina and the Africanist familes.
Michael O. Afolayan
On Friday, February 10, 2017 10:35 AM, Okey Iheduru <okeyiheduru@gmail.com> wrote:
Among the best. Genuine and deepest comitment to Africa. He lives on in all of us, though we wish his soul finds perfect peace.
Okey
On Feb 10, 2017 4:13 AM, "Toyin Falola" <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:
The great man is gone.
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